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I was trying Last two hour to install Skype on Ubuntu 12.04 But getting the error

Extracting templates from packages: 100%
dpkg: error: unable to create new file '/var/lib/dpkg/info/format-new': Is a directory
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Any Help would be greatly Appreciated !!!

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  • I'm using sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install skype
    – Gupta
    Mar 12, 2016 at 12:15

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To install Skype add the Canonical Partner Repository.Open the terminal and run the following commands:

sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
sudo apt-get update

Install Skype on Ubuntu 32bit:

wget -O skype.deb http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install libxss1
sudo dpkg -i skype.deb
sudo apt-get -f install 

Install Skype on Ubuntu 64bit:

wget -O skype.deb http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu_4.0.0.8-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install libxss1 lib32stdc++6 lib32asound2 ia32-libs libc6-i386 lib32gcc1 
sudo dpkg -i skype.deb
sudo apt-get -f install 

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